Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

Thanks, Piotr.

Locative looks like a real possibility to me.

Perhaps you can answer something.

Would IE *bh&i- result in Lithuanian <bai->?


Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit


> On 2008-02-29 23:29, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > In any case, Latin credere is proof the process
> > happened at least somewhere between IE and Latin
> > --most likely in some stage of IE
>
> The verb is also attested in Celtic and Indo-Iranian (in Skt. its pres.
> is even reduplicated: <s'rad-dadHa:ti>). As for *k^red- rather than
> *k^erd- or *k^r.d-, see
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/38673
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/38696
>
> Piotr
>
>